1. Song Seung-heon is a South Korean model and actor.
23 Facts About Song Seung-heon
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Song Seung-heon has acted in various television dramas, notably Autumn in My Heart, East of Eden, My Princess, Black, Player, The Great Show, and Dinner Mate.
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Song Seung-heon began his career in 1995 as a model for the jeans brand 292513=STORM, and first became known to viewers in the popular sitcom Three Guys, Three Girls in 1996.
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The romantic melodrama series was a ratings success, pioneering a trend in Korean melodramatic series and launching a fever that is commonly referred to as the "Korean Wave" and leading to Song Seung-heon becoming a Hallyu star.
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Song Seung-heon further solidified his status as a Hallyu star in 2003 with Summer Scent, co-starring Son Ye-jin.
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In 2004, Song Seung-heon appeared in two films, but neither was a success: Ice Rain, shot in the Canadian Rockies, failed to enthuse viewers with its mixture of mountaineering and melodrama, while He Was Cool, based on an internet novel by Guiyeoni, was unable to compete with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and other films from the 2004 summer season.
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Amidst the press coverage and scandal this aroused, Song Seung-heon agreed to immediately serve his two-year term in the military.
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Song Seung-heon was discharged on November 15,2006, with the rank of corporal, to much fanfare and media attention.
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Song Seung-heon starred in the action film Fate, and the 2010 remake A Better Tomorrow.
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In 2011, Song Seung-heon starred in My Princess opposite Kim Tae-hee, his first romantic comedy.
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Song Seung-heon then played a cold-hearted loan shark and gangster who morphs into a successful businessman for his love in 2013 melodrama When a Man Falls in Love.
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In 2014, Song Seung-heon starred in Kim Dae-woo's erotic period film Obsessed.
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Song Seung-heon was next cast as a fighter pilot in his second Chinese project, World War II film Air Strike.
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Song Seung-heon is set to star in the film Man of Will, portraying a cruel and cold-hearted prison director.
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Back on the Korean screen in 2017, Song Seung-heon starred opposite Lee Young-ae in period drama Saimdang, Memoir of Colors, about the Joseon artist and calligrapher Shin Saimdang; Song Seung-heon played a fictional character, an aristocrat and painter who has loved the heroine since childhood.
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Song Seung-heon reunited with Black director Ko Jae-hyun in another OCN drama Player in 2018, playing the role of a con-artist.
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In 2019, Song Seung-heon starred in the political family comedy drama The Great Show.
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In 2020, Song Seung-heon starred in the romance drama Dinner Mate as a psychiatrist.
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In 2021, Song Seung-heon took the role as the main lead in the fourth season of Voice.
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Song Seung-heon owns the Sinsa-dong branch of Italian restaurant chain Blacksmith, launched by Caffe Bene.
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In 2011, Song Seung-heon was named PR ambassador for cultural sharing by the Korea Foundation.
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Song Seung-heon's role was to promote Korean language, food and other cultural heritages overseas.